Please bookmark us as the old Ning & temporary Grou.ps sites will be disappearing shortly.

There's been a problem generating a new password for ex-Ning members: If that's you, please go to the site with your old Ning username - or email you used when you originally registered - and reset your password here: http://elbowfans.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

You'll also need the new generic password I sent in the first of the two emails sent to members last night to access the Archive & Media.

If you're not already signed up, new members can register themselves without quite so much faff.

Well, obviously. What I mean is, where and how do I get one? When I go to the site, there's no info at all for either of those things, and the only thing that pops up is a thing telling me to "sign in" with my e-mail and password. I can't sign in if I haven't registered, and there's no way to do that, either.

For any other folk who'd like to sign up, either mention me @elbowfans on Twitter or PM me on here with these details: - Your choice of username - your email address - your preferred password (you can change this again once you've signed in)

You'll then get an email with your login details confirmed, plus ANOTHER generic password which you'll need to access the archive & media sections.

You can also email me these details to the address posted on the elbowfans site.

Whats up with elbowfans? I can't log in anymore and I seem to have disappeared off the home page and groups I was in? I know it was working recently cos I mentioned the site to Neonchoir and torkidlx to join, and saw they both had.

Hi, Jones, when you log in can try can you see if I'm even on there?...maybe its my computer? when I logged in recently just some of the stuff I'd added was there, but now I can only see half the conversations with members...like their post, but not mine.

Edit day later....Well weird. I've now reappeared on the members list today, but when I try to log in, with same username and password as ever...used about 5 days ago, says :

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this IP range has been blocked due to too many recent failed login attempts.

Why?I've had problems with spam & troll attacks, so have had to tighten-up the security on the site which has been in place for some time now. The main software which drives the site is due another major upgrade soon which should - *fingers crossed* - allow a little easing up of that, but for now this is how it works:

Signing up If you'd like to sign up, please PM me on here with your preferred username and the email address you use so I can register you. You'll get an initial password which you can then change on your profile page. In future I hope to enable self-registration again, but it's not possible right now.